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<h1>git-quiltimport</h1>  <h2 id="_name">Name</h2> <div class="sectionbody">  <p>git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch</p>  </div>   <h2 id="_synopsis">Synopsis</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="verseblock"> <pre class="content" data-language="shell">git quiltimport [--dry-run | -n] [--author &lt;author&gt;] [--patches &lt;dir&gt;]
                [--series &lt;file&gt;] [--keep-non-patch]</pre> </div> </div>   <h2 id="_description">Description</h2> <div class="sectionbody">  <p>Applies a quilt patchset onto the current Git branch, preserving the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present in the quilt patchset.</p>   <p>For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the patch description. If that fails it falls back to the author specified with --author. If the --author flag was not given the patch description is displayed and the user is asked to interactively enter the author of the patch.</p>   <p>If a subject is not found in the patch description the patch name is preserved as the 1 line subject in the Git description.</p>  </div>   <h2 id="_options">Options</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"> <dl> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt--n"> -n </dt> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt---dry-run"> --dry-run </dt> <dd> <p>Walk through the patches in the series and warn if we cannot find all of the necessary information to commit a patch. At the time of this writing only missing author information is warned about.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt---authoremAuthorNameltAuthorEmailgtem"> --author <em>Author Name &lt;Author Email&gt;</em> </dt> <dd> <p>The author name and email address to use when no author information can be found in the patch description.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt---patchesltdirgt"> --patches &lt;dir&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>The directory to find the quilt patches.</p>  <p>The default for the patch directory is <code>patches</code> or the value of the <code>$QUILT_PATCHES</code> environment variable.</p>  </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt---seriesltfilegt"> --series &lt;file&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>The quilt series file.</p>  <p>The default for the series file is &lt;patches&gt;/series or the value of the <code>$QUILT_SERIES</code> environment variable.</p>  </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt---keep-non-patch"> --keep-non-patch </dt> <dd> <p>Pass <code>-b</code> flag to <code>git mailinfo</code> (see <a href="git-mailinfo">git-mailinfo[1]</a>).</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div><div class="_attribution">
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    &copy; 2012&ndash;2024 Scott Chacon and others<br>Licensed under the MIT License.<br>
    <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-quiltimport" class="_attribution-link">https://git-scm.com/docs/git-quiltimport</a>
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